The Triple-I company is the primary home of 21st century knowledge workers. So, what is it?

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The Nature of Organizations
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This video is part of course module number 6.1.2
Program 6: Managing within Organizations
Course 1: The Nature of Organizations
Section 2: Organizational Models


Other videos in this section include:
Edgar Schein's Two Organizational Cultures - https://youtu.be/9C64CXJw83E
Henry Mintzberg's 4 plus 2 Organizational Types - https://youtu.be/JmvYcskjh3E
Charles Handy's Gods of Management - https://youtu.be/yClxu7dzmB4
Charles Handy's Shamrock Organization - https://youtu.be/dGGKT0Mr_HA
Charles Handy's Federal Organization Model - https://youtu.be/69AYxCvT7m4
The Matrix Organization Model - https://youtu.be/hJ9wbFgmtKM
Peter Senge's Learning Organization - https://youtu.be/k1k2h1l2VO0
Adhocracy - https://youtu.be/7QKm0Y3_Hr0
The Agile Organization - https://youtu.be/67NVUeFQMy4
Brian Robertson's Holacracy - https://youtu.be/hz3khhOLT5E
Virtual Organizations - https://youtu.be/Hsovj2jPNPA

LESSON NOTES
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This is the final of our four organizational models proposed by the fertile mind of Charles Handy. For the others, take a look at our videos on:
• The Gods of Management
• The Shamrock Organization, and
• The Federal Organization

The Triple-I company is the primary home of 21st century knowledge workers.

The astonishing rise of internet-based software companies, web-based news aggregators, digital information providers, and the high-tech consultancies that serve them, seems to me to be ample evidence of Handy’s prescience.

The Triple-I company capitalises, above all, on:
• Ideas
• Intelligence
• Information

This organization treats smart people as individuals, so follows closely on Handy’s earlier models of the Task and Person cultures in his Gods of Management model.

People within a Triple-I organization are often focused on their own personal success and on their self-development. So a successful Triple-I organization will need to create a sense of community and belonging to hold onto people… what Handy describes as a ‘membership community’.

As with Handy’s Federal Model organizations, therefore, the core of a Triple-I organization must assert the lightest of touches over the professionals it employs. Decision-making needs to be decentralized, with only the core strategic direction coming from the center.


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2. In your organization, how important are each of ideas, intelligence, and information? (3 MC CPD Points)

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